Welcome to steemit Hive account@maiteclement! I love your #introduceyourself post! I am retired now to Mexico, but spent years teaching high school in Canada and really enjoyed it!! I also have the same passion about cleaning up our oceans...it's terrible to see the pollution, isn't it??

I belong to several groups here who welcome, support, and mentor new people like yourself. They each have a Discord channel as well, which if you don't know, is another place that we connect, chat, share ideas, contest, problems...whatever you need actually. The groups are Hive account@newbieresteemday, Hive account@greetersguild, Hive account@asapers and Hive account@helpie. We overlap a bit, but that's a good thing because you can get to know so many like-minded people who are really interested in selfless, community spirit. We purposefully go looking for new people because truthfully, it can all get a little overwhelming when you first start out ;)

If you have any questions, feel free to ask. I'm also going to come back here as Hive account@newbieresteemday and resteem your post in the hopes of giving you more exposure. Please consider joining these groups; they'd all love to have you :)